Given the significance
of climate change research in public policy, the study's results also provide important response to critics of global warming.
Pitman, Andy Andy Pitman is joint director
of the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and a Lead Author of the IPCC Third and Fourth Assessment Reports.
ICN's series on Exxon's early research into global warming showed that the company was at the
forefront of climate change research as early as 1978, long before the general public was aware of the looming crisis.
Exxon Mobil, once one of the staunchest
critics of climate change research, has acknowledged under Tillerson's leadership that human - made emissions have contributed to altering the planet's climate.
Later this year, a major update on the
state of climate change research — the impacts, solutions, scientific underpinnings, etc. — will be released by the United Nations
He could soon face more hard questions from the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, which is skeptical about the
value of climate change research, much of it supported by NASA.
«The country is already dry and ecologically fragile, with relatively poor soils,» says Steven Sherwood, an atmospheric physicist and
codirector of the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
IIASA researchers have been involved in greenhouse gas emission projections since the
beginning of climate change research in the 1970s, including research on both historical emissions as well as projections for future emissions based on multiple scenarios of economic and population growth and technological change.
These are are crucial
components of climate change research, as well as being important elements of understanding climate change feedbacks involving the carbon cycle, informing the further development of Earth System Models, and for getting a better idea of future impacts.
I appreciate the bold scientists who maintains the debate about scientific
methods of climate change research; however, I miss a mention of the first challengers, McIntyre and McKitrick, who were the first scientists who questioned the statistical methods leading to hockety stick shape of paleoclimate reconstructions.
Based from 2005 to 2009 in Accra, Ghana and in Kigali, Rwanda, he has worked on building up co-operation with applied scientists and policy makers in the Western and Eastern - African regions on the
subject of climate change research and policy applications.
Excerpts: Regarding the currently popular theory that mankind is responsible for global warming, I am very pleased to deliver good news from the front
lines of climate change research.
(04/19/12) The California Air Resources Board (ARB) and the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) have unveiled a public
database of climate change research projects and programs taking place in California, focusing on projects or programs receiving federal funding.
Programs like Journey North, which traces Monarch butterfly migrations, and Project Budburst, which notes how early plants and trees flower each year, provide a way for students to directly contribute to the ongoing
body of climate change research.
Qatar announces a partnership with the Potsdam Institute for the
creation of a climate change research institute (l - r): COP President Abdullah bin Hamad Al - Attiyah, Faisal Al Suwaidi and H. H. Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, both of the Qatar Foundation, UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres, and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) Director Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Science Careers described the burgeoning
field of climate change research, which is attracting more public - and private - sector money, and which offers opportunities that cross traditional scientific disciplines.
Almost as soon as the world's nations settled on the Paris target, there were doubts about whether the temperature limit is achievable, and these doubts have been expressed by distinguished scientists at the
forefront of climate change research.